Most Clicked This Week
- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
- #MAGA "Jerusalem is now looking at what may be the most pro-Israel White House in the history of the bilateral relationship"
- Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments
- This all has to change: "Palestinian curriculum rejects the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, justifies violence against it, defines such violence as a religious obligation and informs students that Jews and Zionists are irredeemably evil"
- Eurovision Song Winner Barzilai was "unrepentant with her popular techno dance beat about women's empowerment" [VIDEO]
- Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich”
- "The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented"
- “Yale University has quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism”
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Petition submitted to demolish steakhouse, build mosque in Lincolnwood
CHICAGO TRIBUNE by Natalie Hayes May 22, 2015 Leaders of a Chicago-based mosque have purchased the former Myron & Phil’s site on the 3900 block of West Devon Avenue with the intention of building a two-story Islamic spiritual center for … Continue reading
A Wall Street Journal op-ed calls Asians the ‘new Jews of Harvard admissions’
BUSINESS INSIDER by Peter Jacobs May 20, 2015 Top universities such as Harvard have “double standards” in their admissions policies for “favored minorities” such as black students and Hispanic students, an op-ed published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal argues. “There … Continue reading
On Memorial Day, Israel has what U.S. lacks, Part 2
In response to my posting of Jill Max’s editorial in Haaretz on Monday, Jan Channon, mother of a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, wrote the following: Dear Jill, I read your article this morning: “Israel has what the US Lacks.” At first, … Continue reading
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Israel’s first Jordanian PhD wants to bring peace through water
TIMES OF ISRAEL by Renee Ghert-Zand May 25, 2015 Amer Sweity lives at Midreshet Ben-Gurion in Sde Boker, a tiny community located some 50 kilometers south of Beersheba….Residing and conducting research at Ben-Gurion University’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amer Sweity, Ben Gurion University, desalination, Jordan, Jordanian, water
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The Journey Out: Peril And Promise In Leaving The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish World
HUFFINGTON POST by Talia Lavin May 21, 2015 Shulem Deen’s first steps away from Hasidic Judaism were in the direction of a radio. Defying his community’s express prohibitions against secular media, Deen waited until his wife and children were sleeping. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged All Who Go Do Not Return, Hasidic, Hasidim, secularism, Shulem Deen
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Aging Catholic Nuns Get Care at Jewish Nursing Home
ABC NEWS by Jim Fitzgerald AP May 24, 2015 For 98-year-old Sister Angela Rooney, it was one of the most jarring moves of her life. She always thought she would live out her days as she had for decades, in a … Continue reading
Why do people hate Jews and Judaism?
WASHINGTON POST by Benjamin Blech / Religion News Service May 21, 2015 As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the holiday of Shavuot commemorating the acceptance of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, we are profoundly disturbed by the … Continue reading
On Memorial Day, Israel has what U.S. lacks
HAARETZ by Jill Max May 22, 2015 We may share a deep respect for our soldiers, but Americans do not honor ours with the sense of collective responsibility that Israelis do for theirs. …Last month, during another visit to Israel, … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 